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[LivGolden]

Yes, we stayed in the Douglas area. I met the band teacher at the local high school. He and his wife were really nice and accommodated us.

I liked Tombstone. We took a Ghost Hunting tour there. It was during the day so - unofficial. It's put on by two sisters. There were more funeral parlors in Tombstone than anything or anywhere else. Interesting history. 

One thing though - the headstones in the "official" cemetery were all of the same cut of plywood. That was odd...

 

[QinReno]

Tombstone was cool. Must be a few ghost stories there for a Dreamweaver to catch. I doubt they had plywood back in the 1880s.

Also, I have read that it's not a good idea to go camping or hiking in isolated areas too close to the mexican border. Border Patrol cars and checkpoint stations everywheres. "What's in the back of the van?", Duh.

 

[LivGolden]

We actually heard a few stories at the new craft beer brewery that had opened in town. I dunno, it was a really calm environment, I thought. Truly, mostly tourists and show people from the skits. The ghost tour was not intriguing. However, the sisters who ran it were. People are infinitely more interesting than ghosts.

 

[QinReno]

I went there for the imagination. The ghosts from the 1880s don't walk the streets in the daytime, that's for tourists with their plastic credit cards in 2018. Just think of how many ghosts there must be in Tombstone. 100s and 100s. Every ghost has a story. 

Who do you think all these guys are (love the trumpets) ...
- classic:

- visually poetic: 

- Gene Autry made a move: 
  (I know this will come as a shock, but I look just like the old cowpoke, it is what it is, LOL).

 

[LivGolden]

Those are great, Q.

I'm open to the possibility of spirit or consciousness. I think the tours, though, were lacking a bit in sincerity. Perhaps there's so much competition for tourists that it's inevitable.

I got more from a conversation I had with a woman at the cemetery gift shop. I have a lot of favor for sincere people even if they are bouncing off the walls.

Still, I'd go back. It was a fun time and the people were good. The sauerkraut at the German restaurant is homemade. For some reason, that left an impression. 

 

[QinReno]

Ha,ha, let's all go to Tombstone for the sauerkraut, I love it. Even the Tombstonites need to eat too, so tourism is the stock and trademark - pay for tours. I was walking down the exact middle of the main tourist street with my usual swagger and wide-brim hat, and the cops on horseback were giving me funny looks. For some reason, that left an impression.

I think of ghosts more as metaphorical entities. Stories rather than beings. Every gunfighter in boot hill led a life of some sort before settling down. Every Beast on a mountaintop has a story of how it got there. All of my dreams last night had ghosts.

 

[highdesertranger]

I can't get past the smell of sauerkraut. gags me just to smell it. highdesertranger

 

[Moxadox]

Q, you better change your ways ;-P

The Dire Wolfess

 

[QinReno]

Q, you better change your ways ;-P

You're saying ... before HDR comes after me? I hadn't even posted my reply yet. (yeah, I keep trying to change, but the will is weak).

I can't get past the smell of sauerkraut. gags me just to smell it. highdesertranger

"I love the smell of 'sauerkraut' in the morning", myself, to paraphrase Robert Duvall. We're gonna lose faith in your mountain manliness, HDR. First, it's don't like coffee grounds in your cup, now it's sauerkraut smells bad. What next? Cowboy hat doesn't fit right? Sheesh.

 

[Dingfelder]

We actually heard a few stories at the new craft beer brewery that had opened in town. I dunno, it was a really calm environment, I thought. Truly, mostly tourists and show people from the skits. The ghost tour was not intriguing. However, the sisters who ran it were. People are infinitely more interesting than ghosts.

Wait long enough and you can have it both ways.

 

[Moxadox]

Y'all crack me up.



The Dire Wolfess

 

[bullfrog]

Thanks Q for reminding me I could do with a good Reuben sandwich and I like to camp close to the border because I seldon see anyone as I go to bed early. And anyone that knocks on my door without identifying themselves is probably okay to shoot but after several years of camping within site of the border thats never happened. I guess because my stuff looks so old and worn out they figure I'm worse off than they are! I have considered leaving out a gallon jug of drinking water on the main trail a few hundred yards away just to see if anyone came by but with all the help towers (push a button and the Border Patrol shows up in seconds) I figured they preffered I didn't. Did have some people camping with us that found a bale laying in the brush that wanted to report it. Had NPS and the Border Patrol watching to see if anyone came to pick it up but I guess they finally gave up and picked it up. It's one way to avoid the crowds for sure I tell ya. Most of the wealthy drug smugglers use the reservation as they can buy a pass and Border Patrol has to get permission to go in there, funny how things work out here.

 

[LivGolden]

I found my journal entry for the day I visited Tombstone. I really want to tell y'all about the woman at the Store but it would feel like snitching. I didn't make one thing up. I didn't have to. When I left the store, I knew which restaurants not to eat at and which tours not to take. And who was spooning with whom. All this in about a half hour. As I was leaving, I asked the woman if I could take her photograph. The first one I took was face forward. She then told me to take another and she turned to her right. Then another and she turned to her left. I wondered where she learned to do that... :dodgy:

 

[waverider1987]

I'm seriously wondering how much I'll like being at the RTR for the same reason. I'm definitely a loner/introvert type of person. But I'll go give it a try.

Likewise, but I feel like it's a lot of the same type of people, so that's a plus